Effect of milking frequency oh collection of milk from nursing New Zealand white rabbitsFootnote¹

Paper number 3066 of the Mass. Agr. Exp. Sta., Univ. of Mass, at Amherst. This research supported in part by NIH‐SBIR grant no. HD25349‐021A awarded to TSI, Corp., Worcester, MA.

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